On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Thad Coons <tocoons at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> One of the more or less standard tropes of SF&F, although I couldn't
>> > find it "TV Tropes", is the "Benevolent and enlightened monarch".
In TV Tropes terms that's more or less a combination of "Reasonable
Authority Figure" and "Royals Who Actually DO Something" IMO
-Royce in MD (no, not that one)